When Téa Leoni first read the pilot script for Madam Secretary, from renowned show
creator Barbara Hall (Joan of Arcadia),
“I knew right away who this woman was going to be.” In contemplating taking on
her first regular dramatic series, Leoni admits that three role models
immediately came to mind: Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Condoleezza
Rice. So as an actress, “I’m in a great
position, where I can steal from those women, and the show can imagine more.”
The
highly-sought actress reveals she was already a big fan of the similarly
multi-faceted The Good Wife (and indeed CBS' President Nina Tassler and the network's scheduling guru Kelly Kahl both joke that Madam Secretary is perfectly positioned among its new Sunday night neighbors, because "the show looks like what would happen if 60 Minutes and The Good Wife had a baby.") With
Julianna Margulies’ Alicia Florrick now following Leoni's Elizabeth McCord, the 48-year-old actress is excited that “we
have strong, complex and dynamic women on television.” So while in real life, Leoni hopes that Mrs.
Clinton will leverage her years of experience into a presidential bid in 2016,
for now, regarding her character, a former professor and CIA analyst, “This is
the woman I want to see in office.”
Madam Secretary
CBS
Sundays at 8PM
beginning September 21
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